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The chairs came from home.
Shot on camera. Giffoni Film Festival archive.
Source flickr.comThe Giffoni Film Festival does not organise WAIFF Napoli. The guests, institutions and partners on this page are its own.
Who organises WAIFF Napoli
WAIFF Napoli is organised by 2WATCH Group, WAIFF and Giffoni Innovation Hub, based on a format by Institut EuropIA, under the patronage of the City of Naples and in collaboration with the City and the Fondazione Film Commission Regione Campania.
WAIFF is the World AI Film Festival. Marco Landi founded it, and the brand belongs to Institut EuropIA.
Giffoni Innovation Hub is based in Naples and works on four fronts, training, original productions, start-ups and events. Its projects include the BeShort festival, La Voce dei Giovani with the City of Naples and the 2023 survey on music and artificial intelligence with FIMI and the City of Naples.
Giffoni Innovation Hub
2025 in numbers
- 22,100 event participants
- 10,488 students
- 20 scholarships
- 21 start-ups
Since 2015
- over 200 clients
Reported by Giffoni Innovation Hub, Impact Report 2025 and giffonihub.com.
Guests and partners of the Giffoni Film Festival, 1971-2026
They came to the Giffoni Film Festival or stood behind it, and none of them is connected to WAIFF Napoli. They are that festival's history, and we list them under its name.
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In the spotlight, with archive photos
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Shot on camera. Giffoni Film Festival archive.
Source flickr.comFrançois Truffaut 1982
Nocciola d'oro, with Fanny Ardant.
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Shot on camera. Giffoni Film Festival archive.
Source flickr.comRita Levi-Montalcini 1992
Truffaut Award.
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Shot on camera. Giffoni Film Festival archive.
Source flickr.comMichelangelo Antonioni 1995
The first Grifone d'oro, the golden griffin, for lifetime achievement, and ten minutes of applause.
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Shot on camera. Giffoni Film Festival archive.
Source flickr.comMikhail Gorbachev with Raisa 1997
They open the festival.
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Shot on camera. Giffoni Film Festival archive.
Source flickr.comAgnès Varda 1997
Guest.
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Shot on camera. Giffoni Film Festival archive.
Source flickr.comMeryl Streep 2002
Guest of honour that year, meets the jurors.
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Shot on camera. Giffoni Film Festival archive.
Source giffoni.itTim Burton 2025
Truffaut Award.
International cinema
Shot on camera. Giffoni Film Festival archive.
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Shot on camera. Giffoni Film Festival archive.
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- Robert De Niro 1982
- Peter Ustinov 1984
- Vanessa Redgrave 1987
- Klaus Maria Brandauer 1988
- Jeremy Irons 1990
- John Travolta 1991
- Anthony Quinn 1992
- Ben Kingsley 1995
- Mickey Rooney 1996
- Geraldine Chaplin 1996
- Peter Fonda 1997
- Greta Scacchi 2000
- Rupert Everett 2000
- Dino De Laurentiis 2001
- Ray Liotta 2001
- Meryl Streep 2002
- Ian McKellen 2003
- Juliette Lewis 2003
- David Carradine 2004
- Claire Danes 2005
- Elijah Wood 2006
- Kathy Bates 2006
- Anna Paquin 2006
- Jessica Biel 2006
- Danny DeVito 2007
- Meg Ryan 2008
- Tim Roth 2008
- Naomi Watts 2009
- Liev Schreiber 2009
- Winona Ryder 2009
- Eva Mendes 2009
- Christina Ricci 2009
- Samuel L. Jackson 2010
- Susan Sarandon 2010
- Sam Worthington 2010
- Edward Norton 2011
- Hilary Swank 2011
- Nicolas Cage 2012
- Jessica Alba 2012
- Jean Reno 2012
- Jessica Chastain 2013
- Eddie Redmayne 2013
- Richard Gere 2014
- Alan Rickman 2014
- Orlando Bloom 2015
- Mark Ruffalo 2015
- Jennifer Aniston 2016
- Amy Adams 2017
- Julianne Moore 2017
- Bryan Cranston 2017
- Kit Harington 2017
- Paul Rudd 2018
- Evangeline Lilly 2018
- Elle Fanning 2019
- Woody Harrelson 2019
- Jonathan Wang 2024
- Bella Ramsey 2026
Directors
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- François Truffaut 1982
- Mario Monicelli 1984, 1992, 2000
- Sergio Leone 1987
- Francesco Rosi 1987
- Louis Malle 1988
- Paolo and Vittorio Taviani 1988, 1993
- Bernardo Bertolucci 1989
- Ettore Scola 1989, 1991, 1994
- Michelangelo Antonioni 1991, 1995
- Abbas Kiarostami 1993, 1997
- Wim Wenders 1994
- Giuseppe Tornatore 1994
- Mario Martone 1994, 2000, 2023
- Krzysztof Kieślowski 1995
- Gabriele Salvatores 1995, 2017
- Agnès Varda 1997
- Jean-Jacques Annaud 1998
- Gabriele Muccino 2001, 2017, 2024
- Ferzan Özpetek 2003, 2014, 2018, 2021
- Paolo Sorrentino 2005, 2025
- Baz Luhrmann 2009
- Andrei Konchalovsky 2011
- Matteo Garrone 2016
- Tim Burton 2025
Italian film, music and entertainment
Shot on camera. Giffoni Film Festival archive.
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- Nino Manfredi 1985
- Stefania Sandrelli 1985
- Alberto Sordi 1986, 1994, 1995
- Giulietta Masina 1986
- Franco Nero 1987, 1992
- Ornella Muti 1988, 2014, 2025
- Gina Lollobrigida 1989
- Giancarlo Giannini 1989, 2013
- Carlo Verdone 1989
- Michele Placido 1989
- Bud Spencer 1990, 1997
- Roberto Benigni 1991
- Gian Maria Volonté 1991
- Terence Hill 1992
- Silvio Orlando 1993, 1995, 2021
- Gigi Proietti 1994
- Mariangela Melato 1994
- Sabrina Ferilli 1995, 2001, 2006
- Carlo Rambaldi 1997, 2003, 2005
- Ennio Morricone 1999
- Stefano Accorsi 1999, 2019
- Toni Servillo 2008, 2020, 2025
- Pierfrancesco Favino 2008
- Luciano Ligabue 2010
- Paola Cortellesi 2011
- Jovanotti 2011
- Franco Battiato 2012
- Vittorio Storaro 2014
- Marco D'Amore and the cast of Gomorrah 2014, 2016
- Alessandro Borghi 2016, 2019, 2024
- Andrea Bocelli 2018
- Matilda De Angelis 2018, 2026
- Monica Bellucci 2025
Words and encounters
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- Nedo Fiano, Auschwitz survivor 1999
- Umberto Guidoni, astronaut 1999
- Gianni Minà 1999, 2000, 2010
- Milo Manara 2009
- Patti Smith 2012
- Roberto Saviano 2013
- Alessandro Baricco 2015
- Mika 2016, 2017
- Laura Esquivel 2017
- Paolo Giordano 2017
- Iginio Straffi 2017
- Erri De Luca 2023
Institutions and visits
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- Sandro Pertini, High Patronage 1983
- Francesco Cossiga receives a delegation at the Quirinale 1989
- Giovanni Spadolini, official visit 1990
- Nilde Iotti, visit 1991
- Giorgio Napolitano, three official visits 1992, 1998, 2010
- John Paul II receives representatives of the festival in Rome 2000
- Lech Wałęsa meets the jurors 2001
- Pope Francis, greeting at the Angelus 2023
- Roberta Metsola, video message to the jurors 2023
- Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, visit 2024
- Sergio Mattarella, High Patronage 2024 and 2025
- Pope Leo XIV, mention at the Angelus 2025
Giffoni Innovation Hub began in 2015 as a spin-off of the innovation department of the Giffoni Film Festival, a story that started in 1971, and that we tell below.
The Giffoni Film Festival, since 1971
In 1982 François Truffaut arrives with Fanny Ardant to collect the Nocciola d'oro, the golden hazelnut. In a letter he writes a line the festival has carried with it ever since.
Shot on camera. Giffoni Film Festival archive.
Source flickr.com“of all film festivals, Giffoni's is the most necessary”
Text from giffoni.it, our translation. The line is about the Giffoni Film Festival.
From Truffaut, a guest in 1982, to Tim Burton in 2025, in the hall named after Truffaut.
- since 1971
- 56 editions
- over 5,000 jurors
- 104 films
- over 250,000 people involved in nine days
Giffoni Film Festival figures, reported by the Festival. The juries of 1991 and of today can't be compared section by section.
The story of the Giffoni Film Festival and Giffoni Innovation Hub
- 1971
At eighteen, Claudio Gubitosi founds a film festival for young people in Giffoni Valle Piana. There are no cinemas. The audience brings chairs from home.
Claudio Gubitosi with Klaus Maria Brandauer, 1988 Shot on camera. Giffoni Film Festival archive.
Source flickr.com - 1991
The best film isn't picked by critics. It's picked by kids. In 1991 there are 122 of them, all under fourteen. In 2026 there are over 5,000, from 35 countries and 500 towns and villages.
A jury in the cinema, archive photo, year not recorded Shot on camera. Giffoni Film Festival archive.
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Giffoni Innovation Hub becomes a company, led by Luca Tesauro.
Next Generation, Giffoni Innovation Hub, 2016 Shot on camera. Giffoni Film Festival archive.
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On 13 July the Multimedia Valley opens.
The Multimedia Valley building site presented at the Campania regional government, December 2014 Shot on camera. Giffoni Film Festival archive.
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On 26 July Claudio Gubitosi hands over to Jacopo Gubitosi and Luca Apolito.
Jacopo Gubitosi at the Connessioni generative talk, July 2026 Shot on camera. Giffoni Film Festival archive.
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The 56th edition brings over 5,000 jurors from 35 countries to Giffoni Valle Piana.
The Sala Verde at the festival's opening presentation, July 2026 Shot on camera. Giffoni Film Festival archive.
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The other 9 dates
- 1982
François Truffaut arrives to collect the Nocciola d'oro.
- 1984
The Campania regional government backs the Giffoni Film Festival with a law and an annual grant.
- 1997
The first stone of the Cittadella del Cinema is laid, with the Sala Truffaut.
- 2003
The Giffoni Film Festival reaches Miami with over 3,000 students.
- 2009
The Giffoni Film Festival becomes Giffoni Experience, a cultural factory open all year round.
- 2014
Inside the Giffoni Film Festival, the idea of an innovation hub takes shape.
- 2018
The robot Pepper becomes juror number 5601, with Giffoni Innovation Hub.
- 2023
Giffoni Innovation Hub, FIMI and the City of Naples present a survey on music and artificial intelligence.
- 2026
On 4 November 2WATCH Group, WAIFF and Giffoni Innovation Hub announce the first Italian edition of the World AI Film Festival, in Naples.
Institutions of the Giffoni Film Festival
Region of Campania · Italian Ministry of Culture · Ministry of Education and Merit · Ministry of the Interior and FAMI · INPS · UNICEF · Municipality of Giffoni Valle Piana
None of these institutions is connected to WAIFF Napoli.
Partners of the Giffoni Film Festival
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Partners of editions of the Giffoni Film Festival. None of them is a partner of WAIFF Napoli.
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13 of these brands also appear among the clients and partners reported by Giffoni Innovation Hub.
Who has worked with Giffoni Innovation Hub
Clients and partners reported by Giffoni Innovation Hub.
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None of these brands is a partner of WAIFF Napoli.
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Giffoni Innovation Hub comes from those chairs. Big things take many hands.